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After 20+ years of "rock criticism" for various magazines/outlets, I turned in 70k words to my publisher and will have a book about the best EPs (extended plays) ever released coming out in mid-2024. 44 other people contributed reviews, opinions, essays. It may very well be a niche interest (a family member called it that, ha) but I'm excited for people to read it.
Dec 28, 2023
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been working on this project for the past year and i'm now at the last stages where i'm getting ready to officially self-publish it. i'm literally vibrating with excitement to finally set this wonderful little thing out into the world for other people to experience. even if only like 2 people end up getting the book, i'll still be happy cause the big achievement here is that i actually finished what i started. no overthinking, no convincing myself that i'm not "ready" yet, just me doing the thing đ
Nov 6, 2024
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what a rush. even if itâs not a good book.
Jul 29, 2024
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I finished a book for the first time in a year yesterday. It was âmy year of rest & relaxationâ. Immediately after finishing it, I picked up another book & read 40 pages in a night. Will likely finish that book before the week is through. This will continue.
Apr 15, 2024
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Hey tyler hopefully this doesnât violate some PI.FYI golden rule
But after nearly two years of writing, editing and arguing, my book about the EP is coming out in May and can be preordered here:
https://hozacrecords.com/product/aifl/
The book is about the origins, history and cultural impact of the EP since these little objects first started coming out in the 50s.
Over 50 of my music biz friends then helped me shape the list and review the top 200 ever released, according to us (ha).
For those of you who are into this kind of geekery/snobbery, I canât wait to hear what you think. A labor of love, as all books are! â¤ď¸
Mar 27, 2024
âSongs Of a Lost Worldâ coming to a goth listening station near you Nov 1 đ¤
The fr FW Me Friday the 13th the world was looking for
Sep 14, 2024
I will fail to explain just how much this band meant to me in the 90s.
So I will borrow from AV Club who did a fine job of distilling it:
âUnwound is the best band of the â90s. Not just because of how prolific, consistent, and uncompromising it was, but because of how perfectly Unwound nested in a unique space between some of the most vital forms of music that decade: punk, post-rock, indie rock, post-hardcore, slow-core, and experimental noise. That jumble of subgenres doesnât say much; in fact, it falls far short of what Unwound truly synthesized and stood for. Unwound stood for Unwound. But in a decade where most bands were either stridently earnest or stridently ironic, Unwound wasnât stridently anything. It was only itself. In one sense Unwound was the quietest band of the â90s, skulking around like a nerdy terror cell. In another sense it was the loudest, sculpting raw noise into contorted visions of inner turmoil and frustration.â
R.I.P. Vern Rumsey.
This is their finest song, from their finest album.
I really canât say enough about the sheer bloody minded genius of this group. đ¤
Mar 23, 2024